Employees are requesting more flexibility in their work schedules to be able to integrate work with other aspects of their family and personal lives. While alternative work arrangements are being offered at progressively more companies, it is unclear whether the work culture accepts these arrangements as a viable work alternative. Here we examine the extent to which flextime and telecommuting arrangements impact management accountants' performance evaluations, job commitment, and career progression as compared to working a traditional schedule. We also examine whether these arrangements are perceived as being less acceptable for men than for women. One‐hundred sixty management accountants from 90 companies participated in our experiment. The results indicate that participation in alternative work arrangements did not impact perceptions of current task performance or job commitment. However, participation led to significantly lower perceptions of long‐term career potential.
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1 June 2003
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June 01 2003
An Examination of Alternative Work Arrangements in Private Accounting Practice
Kimberly E. Frank, Associate Professor;
Kimberly E. Frank, Associate Professor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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D. Jordan Lowe, Associate Professor
D. Jordan Lowe, Associate Professor
Arizona State University West.
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Online ISSN: 1558-7975
Print ISSN: 0888-7993
American Accounting Association
2003
Accounting Horizons (2003) 17 (2): 139–151.
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Kimberly E. Frank, D. Jordan Lowe; An Examination of Alternative Work Arrangements in Private Accounting Practice. Accounting Horizons 1 June 2003; 17 (2): 139–151. https://doi.org/10.2308/acch.2003.17.2.139
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